Converting Video For DIVX Devices

Testing with 2010 Equinox.

archlinux

pacman -S dvdrip libdv xvidcore
yaourt divx4linux
sudo pacman -Sv mplayer

mencode

• http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mencoder

Quoted from Gentoo Wiki:

Before jumping into details, let's look at the basics for re-encoding a video file from a format MPlayer can play to an MPEG4. Here is a very simple example:

mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc

Note: This line Does not work with 2010 Equinox

Here's an explanation each option being passed:

• movie.wmv the filename of the original movie file you want to re-encode. It can be any file format that mplayer can play (mplayer can play almost anything).

• -o <filename> the filename to save the encoded file to. On older version of MPlayer, if you do not provide an argument, mencoder will output to "test.avi".

• -ovc <video codec> OVC stands for 'output video codec'. This is the library you want to use to encode the video.

• -oac <audio codec> OAC stands for 'output audio codec'. This is the library you want to encode the audio portion with.

Believe it or not -- that's about all you need to know about re-encoding a file. The example above will encode the video to DivX (mpeg4) video and the audio track to mp2.

If you want to see how another file has been encoded, just run midentify movie.avi. You can also run file movie.avi on the new file for a more basic description. Or, if you have media-video/transcode installed, you can use tcprobe -i movie.avi as well.

mtvcgui

• gui

yaourt mtvcgui

• More for capture devices, no divx out of the box, looks like you can edit an ini (http://easycap.blogspot.com/p/mtvcgui.html)

divxconverter

• gui

yaourt divxconverter

• run with

python2 /usr/bin/divxc

More GUIs

• http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html#mencoder_frontends

Testing

ffmpeg

• Works (Equinox took 2 min to load a listing of one file, then would play)
• To high of bitrate (source file smaller then non source)
• Just testing but for what I am doing I do not think I need some of the command line options

ffmpeg -i DEFCON\ 20\:\ Owned\ in\ 60\ Seconds\:\ From\ Network\ Guest\ to\ Windows\ Domain\ Admin.webm -f avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1500k -s 648x480 -ab 128k -vtag divx output.avi

mencoder

mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc

Note: This line does not work with 2010 Equinox

divx converter

Both filesizes bigger then original

• default settings - Works with Equinox
• hardware compatible - Audio does not play with equinox. Video worked first time but second time played corrupt.